Salmon Valley Stewardship

10/09/2026

Save the date and sign up for our next culinary learning experience. Join us for a workshop on elevated & medicinal mixers, crafting fire c***r, infused shrubs, and elderberry syrup. Sip on cocktails and enjoy appetizers while we learn about these great winter remedies, weaving them into tasty drinks and food.
Register for the class on our events page: www.salmonvalley.org/events
Details: October 23rd, 5pm-7:30pm
At The HUB of Salmon (206 Van Dreff St in Salmon)

You'll go home with samples of everything we make in the class, plus lots of recipes for how to make and use these tasty elixers.
Taught by Moose and Cameron, brought to you by Salmon Valley Stewardship

10/07/2026

Join SVS, Continental Divide Trail Coalition, and fellow trail enthusiasts tomorrow, October 8 from 5-6 pm at the Hub Taproom for Lemhi County’s Fall Gateway Community Check-in!

Connect with Montana Regional Representative Sierra LaBonte and celebrate all the impactful trail work our community has accomplished this season. Meet other passionate trail folks, share ideas, and let CDTC know what’s next. What projects still need to be tackled? What would help elevate the trail and strengthen our community? We want to hear from you!

This event is free and open to everyone- just show up and join the conversation! We’d love to see you there and hear your ideas, questions, and thoughts about the CDT and your community.

See you tomorrow @ 5 at The Hub Taproom!

10/07/2026

Have extra produce at your garden or farm? SVS can coordinate some help for you to harvest and donate it to area foodbanks. People coming to foodbanks don't have a lot of opportunities to get fresh produce, as perishable fresh items are harder to store and distribute on the bulk food shipments foodbanks receive. With funding challenges and increasing needs for food assistance in Idaho, it's often the fresh items that get cut out first.
If you've got a good quantity of something, the foodbanks would always appreciate your donations, or you can get in touch with us at SVS for help getting it harvested before the frosts and colder weather.
Keep this offer in mind for next year's fruit season!

Thanks to the Salmon School Garden for the gorgeous shots of produce.

10/06/2026

Local food is more than just what we grow - it's also what we harvest, hunt, and share with community. The SVS Community Kitchen has a walk-in cooler that’s available as a meat locker for hunters this season. Pricing will vary by space needed, $15-$25 per day.

Send an email to [email protected] or give us a call at (208) 993-9852 to make sure there’s space available and to get set up to use the space.
Note: we may not be available on short notice, so please inquire ahead of time if you're interested.

10/06/2026

The Native Plants Program seed cleaning shop has a sizeable array of equipment specifically designed for cleaning many kinds of seed. From metal drums with spinning chains to dislodge seed from hard pods to sieves and air separators used to separate seed from chaff, our small and mighty shop works well for most of the species we collect. However, some species that have stiff hairs or "awns" take extra work to clean using the tools we have. Fortunately, in 2025 as well as this past week, SVS staff was able to work with the USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center in Aberdeen Idaho to put these difficult seeds through their top-notch professional equipment. The Aberdeen "PMC" has been a national leader in working with both crops and native plants over the last few decades, and has all the professional equipment to show for it. Not only did it save SVS dozens of hours of seed cleaning, but the trip helped make connections and share knowledge. Although SVS and the Aberdeen PMC are at opposite ends of the native seed supply chain, both are working to improve the use of native seed in restoration to protect Idaho's exceptional and rich ecosystems.

Photos details:
SVS Native Plants program Specialist Eli Windy carefully feeds seed from Douglas Dustymaiden (Chaenactis douglasii) through a Westrup LA-H "brush machine" to remove the fluffy wings from the seed, while USDA NRCS Aberdeen Plant Material Center Technician Derek Jolley monitors the machine for the correct settings.

The fluffy seed of Heartleaf Arnica (Arnica cordifolia) right before and right after spending just a few seconds in the brush machine.

10/02/2026

Grow Native Plant Seed for Salmon Valley Stewardship
The Native Plants Program is seeking bids from local agricultural businesses located in east-central Idaho or southwest Montana to produce bulk seed from one or more species of native plant for use in seed-based restoration on public lands.

Submit bid by October 18th 2026 at https://tinyurl.com/SVSPlantsBid
Contact [email protected] for more information

Please share with anyone who may be interested in submitting a bid!

10/02/2026

Have you always wanted to run your own food truck or start a ready to eat food business? The Salmon Valley Stewardship Community Kitchen can help make that happen. We are going to stay open over the winter and offer use of the kitchen for pre-order pickup or "grab and go" style food.
Contact us at [email protected] to ask for our rental pricing, get ideas, or to tour the kitchen and see the space.
This offer is available to established businesses as well or food trucks that may want an opportunity to stay connected with customers throughout the winter season.

09/30/2026

Opportunity to learn how to can meat from UI Extension Lemhi County. While there's many methods of food preservation, canning is still very useful, especially if you don't have access to a lot of freezer space. Get the details on how to do it safely in this class next week!

CANCELLED DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT By popular request! Oct 6th, 5:30 pm: Learn how to can meat and wild game at home! Just in time for hunting season. Must have 10 to hold the class. RSVP and pay by Oct 5th. Call 208-742-1698 to RSVP. Class will be held at the UI Nancy M. Cummings Research Extension and Education Center.

09/30/2026

The SVS Ecological Monitoring Crew has been busy the past few months, mapping invasive weeds for the South Zone of the Salmon-Challis National Forest and Challis Field Office BLM. Projects took the crew on a number of camping hitches to some stunning places including the Copper Basin, Cedar Creek at the base of the Lost River Range as well as up Pass Creek in between Mackay and the Pahsimeroi and at the new Twin Peaks Ranch State Park near Elk Bend. In mid-September the Ecological Monitoring Crew and the Forestry Crew took a break from their surveys to help remove old fences in the Pahsimeroi for the BLM office in Challis.